Extracting cobalt and lithium from old products and infrastructure is essential to heading off predicted metal shortfalls, empowering clean energy transitions and reducing risk of human exploitation.
4 Apr 2019
The periodic table of chemical elements turns 150 this year. The anniversary is a chance to shine a light on particular elements...
Werner van Zyl 3 Apr 2019
The rise of the prosumer - someone who generates and consumes their own energy, which they can also sell into the grid - is a trend that has been gathering momentum in Europe in recent times...
25 Mar 2019
South Africa faces an energy calamity on two fronts. First is the disaster of Eskom. Second, and potentially worse, is the disaster of our REIPPPP and our lunatic IRP 2018 (Integrated Resource Plan)....
Andrew Kenny 18 Mar 2019
The wind turbine tower sections for the 140MW Kangnas Wind Farm are being manufactured at Atlantis om Cape Town's West Coast...
7 Mar 2019
A sharper focus on sustainability at this year's Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town a few weeks ago has started to translate into a different way of looking at mining, and with it, more opportunities for investment...
27 Feb 2019
Entry for enterprise asset management engineering company, Pragma's student training programme will open for entry on 1 March 2019...
21 Feb 2019
Eskom is by far the largest of South Africa's many state owned companies. This near monopoly power utility is in crisis. It's the single largest threat to South Africa's economy...
Rod Crompton 13 Feb 2019
Accenture has announced plans to launch a new Applied Intelligence Studio for Mining in Johannesburg, South Africa...
6 Feb 2019
As traditional and known reserves deplete and ore-grades fall, miners will start exploring remote and previously inaccessible locations...
7 Jan 2019
By 2035, 80% of both total global energy production and consumption will be in developing countries]...
7 Jan 2019
South Africa's mining industry crawled to the end of 2018 battered, bruised, and a mere shadow of its former world-dominating self...
Jade Davenport 7 Jan 2019
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. What developments we can we expect from the solar and renewable energy sectors in 2019?
Sven Lindström 7 Jan 2019
The battery revolution has created a market for metals such as lithium and cobalt, which will see them outperform traditional minerals and set them up as the commodities of the future...
7 Jan 2019
